UK-biased question about GPS

I'd like to take a GPS with me on my Sunday walks.

I assume that if I buy the bottom level GPS I have to "manually" enter a
set of waypoints, which I derive in some manner from my OS map, and it
just watches satellites, and points me towards the next waypoint?

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Obviously the best thing in the world would be a colour GPS, compass,
etc which had a walkers map of the Cotswolds in it.

I assume that if I buy a £350 Garmin, and the Fugawi OS maps CD, I can
pretty much achieve that?
That's a bit outside my budget, but maybe I don't have to pay full
retail.....

Why can't you just buy a GPS ready-to-go with UK OS and road maps loaded
- they seem to ask a lot of an average punter.

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Should I write a book of country walks with the downloadable waypoints
available?

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I already own an XDA-IIs/PDA2K PocketPC, with a much nicer screen than
I'm likely to get on a GPS... I suppose I could justify buying one of
those battery-powered bluetooth-link GPS bricks. How easy is it to get
the OS maps onto my PDA, and get the PDA to take fixes from the GPS lump?

thoughts? recommendations?


David
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